Duolingo – review
Image: Duolingo As a self-confessed – no, professed – language addict, I’m constantly on the hunt for new learning resources. More dictionaries, more phrasebooks, more Rosetta Stone torrents, more dubious immersion strategies (my MacBook is currently set to Icelandic; it’s smooth sailing until an ominous, non-collapsible popup turns More...
Top Ten Tips for Interrailing
1) Book your accommodation in advance Strolling around a picturesque European city looking for accommodation may sound appealing to you, but you will more than likely regret it once it’s 1am, raining and More...
Outlook Festival 2013: A guide
Officially recognised as “Europe’s Biggest Bass Music & Soundsystem Culture Festival” Outlook is about to blow minds again this summer! The sun shining, the waves rolling and the bass thumping, More...
Bestival Breakdown, Part One: Why should I go?
If you haven’t heard of Bestival before now, you’ve probably been in hiding for the past ten years. The “Best Major Festival 2012″ is renowned not only for its utterly brilliant and eclectic music More...
Sunshine in Spring: Tenerife
If the “Spring” in the UK has got you down, a bit of sunshine is definitely in order and you can even get some real heat in Photograph: Vicki CroweBlack sand beach Europe at this time of the year. Situated just More...
Noisily does it!
Let’s face it, a student budget isn’t always a big one. Although we all dream of making it across the sea to Coachella, or Bencassim or wherever else may take your fancy, it isn’t always realistic More...
Budget Breaks Guide: Barcelona
Barcelona could be considered one of the best budget breaks for students: easily accessible through cheap flights, with a vibrant nightlife and the ideal combination of being both a city break and a beach holiday. Barcelona More...
Know Before You Go – How to stay safe on package holidays
As March gets into swing, it seems the perfect time to start making those all-important summer plans, starting with getting that wild holiday abroad booked. With yearly hot spots such as Magaluf and Malia offering More...
The Dangers of Student Travel
So what are you doing after University? Many students (including myself) will know this as the question that drives fear and uncertainty into your heart at every family gathering you have attended over the last More...
Rum guide to hitch’n
Hitch hiking If, in this egotistical capitalist consumer economy, you have lost faith in the gratuitous pillaging of our decrepit planet in the search of a slightly larger percentage of humanities most cruel More...